Some more photos of this part of Durbar Square. The man at the top of the pillar is an old king of Patan, who left the throne to become a hermit. If you have extremely good eyes, you'll see that there's a bird on top of the cobra that's protecting the king. The king told his people that so long as the bird is still there, his people will know he's still alive. For that reason, they still prepare a room and a meal for the king in the nearby palace in case he should happen to return from his many centuries of doing whatever a hermit does. The seventeenth century multi-arched Krishna mandir really stands out from the crowd, and is apparently filled with equally elaborate artwork inside, but it's closed to non-Hindus. When we were there it seemed like a party was going on upstairs with scenes straight out of Bollywood.